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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 2h

Trump is unambiguously on Putin’s side in their war on Ukraine. The U.S. and Russia and North Korea are the new Axis, anti-democratic and anti-freedom.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 18h

Russia Russia Russia: he is now more unambiguously pro-evil-dictator than ever. Another issue where most Americans disagree with him—most want us to give Ukraine more arms, 67% say letting Russia keep seized territory is unacceptable and 75% don’t trust them to keep a peace deal.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Number 12 Looks Just Like You” (Twilight Zone season 5, episode 17) New press secretary Katie Zacharia, predecessor Karoline Leavitt, stalker Natalie Harp, Stormy Daniels, Ivanka.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There’s a certain look they all share, Musk and Kim and Mussolini — Central Casting, as Musk’s and Kim’s frenemy Trump would say.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The three most recent high-quality polls on Trump. Only the hard core are with him now.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

An unusually mad-king one. And good! Because not even a single AI business will obey, humiliatingly confirming his impotence.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anybody in NW Connecticut and vicinity this weekend, I'll be talking about my new novel The Breakup with my pal Graydon Carter at the wonderful House of Books in Kent. (We'll also chat some about Spy magazine, which we co-founded.) Come! 4 pm 10/10. RSVP here: www.houseofbooksct.com/events/60118...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Same as he ever was. Today’s Spy At 40 installment on Substack, #3 in a series. Subscribe! substack.com/@spymagazine...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In New York City this year, 203 people have been murdered—the fewest ever. In the first 9 months of last year, 253 were murdered, also an all-time low. Back in 1990 there were a million fewer people, of whom 1700 were murdered in the first 9 months. I’ll never get over this..

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Did the Secretary of War's lifestyle taboo list in his speech last week make anybody else immediately think of his new BFF –– the trannyish, fattyish beardo and weirdo (multiple names & religions) wimp (no sports, Marine PR guy) a heartbeat away from being commander-in-chief?

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Taking the unprecedented non-stop large-scale corruption to the grotesque next level — not just enriching the Trumps and their cronies at the expense of American suckers/investors, but driving hugely consequential foreign policy. Vote them out. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the average of the seven most reliable and recent national polls that asked voters what they think of Trump, 64% said they disapprove and only 33% approve. His worst polling numbers ever. Maybe we are finally, truly at the beginning of the end.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And in Nevada, of the total of 185 supposedly noncitizen voters the DHS identified, the Republican state government just reported that every single one of them, 100%, were in fact U.S. citizens.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Texas used Trump’s federal database to check all its registered voters, which falsely flagged 578 US citizens. Last week they filed a brief supporting Trump, announcing they’d referred 117 names—a negligible .00065% of 18M voters—to AG Ken Paxton for “investigation of *potential* noncitizen voting."

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In this instance i think it’s more the Stupidity than the Crazy.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m spending the week in Omaha, my now-Democratic hometown in red Nebraska. In 2024 their genius election yard sign was the elegant blue dot. This time in yard after yard it’s the blue dot with a wave.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We always need to manage our election hopes, but Nate Silver’s latest polling aggregation and analysis is very encouraging. (FLIPR is his latest model, which runs thousands of simulations across a range of possible outcomes for each prediction.)

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

<<Which party’s House or Senate candidate will you vote for in this election and/or which party do you want to control the next Congress?>> In the most recent polls followed by the @nytimes.com, Democrats are preferred by an average of 7-8%. Early voting is underway. Vote.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Make-believe Fantasyland justification for his stupid, ugly, expensive, monumentally self-glorifying ballroom last winter — drones! snipers! military command post! — repeated now for his stupid, ugly, expensive, monumentally self-glorifying arch.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

His dreams have all came true: most famous person on earth, in countless millions of minds every day, pulling off a multi-billion-dollar grift in plain sight. Yet still a miserably unhappy clown. Loathed and laughed at, throwing tantrums 24/7 as he heads toward lame-duck doom.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As I’ve said for a decade (as in this 2016 Venn Diagram), the stupidity is fundamental. As well as continually astounding.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

WOW. Even in our jaw-droopingly Onionesque era, these win the month, maybe the year. Both in @us.theguardian.com right now.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

From The Shining to The Royalton and Temple Bar in the 1980s, and then before long every swank bar on earth. Our neo-noir 2nd Gilded Age, early Reagan to late Trump.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The ever-present Special Assistant to the President really does resemble the daughter he agreed in an interview is “a piece of ass” and “stacked…voluptuous,” and in another said that if she “weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her."

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It sold out, now the 2nd printing is in stores, 3rd printing coming soon. 🙏

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Two stories in the @nytimes.com right now. I look forward to collecting the complete set of 12.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This hour-long conversation about The Breakup I had yesterday with the remarkably smart, thoughtful, fun Connecticut NPR hist Colin McEnroe may be the best long live media conversation I’ve ever had about anything. www.ctpublic.org/show/the-col...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And 15 months later, Charles Starkweather went on his 10-victim murder spree with his 14-year-old girlfriend across Nebraska, where I was born and raised. We weren’t allowed outside for days. It’s my first memory.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I occasionally look at his posts on his enormously unprofitable little website. The last 15 minutes: of his five posts, four are AI-generated self-glorifying comic-book fantasies, and the single reality-tethered one is about his ballroom.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hey, look, it’s my first political cartoon ever! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Every quarter @Gallup.com asks people if they’re a Democrat, Republican or Independent, and if Independent which way they lean. First two quarters if this year it was 49% Democrats+leaners vs 39% Republicans+leaners, a 10% margin. The last time either party had a margin larger than 6% was 2008.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sure, it's depressing that four out of five people who voted for Trump in 2024 say they're still mostly or very happy about their vote. BUT: 16 months ago just 8% of them had serious qualms or total regret about it––and now that's 21%. I'm betting the Trump remorse is closer to 40% when he leaves.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I sometimes read e-books and I adore the audiobook of The Breakup. But seeing the beautiful physical thing displayed for sale is still the thrillngest. First Light in Austin, Three Lives in the West Village, Spotty Dog in Hudson, Cornwall Library in Connecticut.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Without naming names, I asked Claude about our testosterone-obsessed Secretary of War.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not just talking about my new novel The Breakup with the brilliant actress (Curb Your Enthusiasm) & playwright-comedian Iris Bahr, but PERFORMING PIECES from it with her in a cool little theater in the East Village. Join us! Next Friday evening the 11th. Tickets: tickets.frigid.nyc/event/6897:1...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today in Fantasyland Thursday he said he might change the names of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Now he’s posted an AI video of a make-believe attack in his lost war on Iran which in real life would make the price of gasoline go to $5 or $6 a gallon.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just as I was finishing my American history Fantasyland (2017), he barged into it to become the star of its final chapter, “As Fantasyland Goes, So Goes the Nation.” And a long decade later, he’s now entered his own personal Fantasyland. With the cult of true believers down to the Natalies.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I was extremely surprised to be invited on Steve Bannon’s online show to talk for an hour about my new novel The Breakup. Even bigger surprise: 100% thoughtful, engaged, low-key, interesting, respectful conversation. The episode rops Saturday morning at 11 am ET, then archived. warroom.org

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The enthusiastic reception for The Breakup has been staggering. Thank you! And sales so strong Random House sold out the first printing in days. More on the way! But to help meet the demand, they lowered the price—temporarily—for Kindle and the other e-books editions to $11.99. www.kurtandersen.com

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594494...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Oh, thanks, that pleases me a lot. And talk about synchronicity: I am at this very moment about to pull into the Baltimore train station.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My book is out today. Huzzah! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594494/the-breakup-by-kurt-andersen/ bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

After reading this article about the Trump Administration’s crazily ignorant, incompetent, bumbling mismanagement of U.S. AI policies, my thoughts drifted to the Manhattan Project…and the 3 Stooges. So I made this, using Claude AI and ChatGPT

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

And the review, snatched from behind Air Mail’s paywall.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Republicans’ nominee for the House in Texas’s 23rd congressional district. His two recent fundraisers were hosted by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson — who has just warned that the most horrible threat to America are advocates of Medicare for All, America “being overrun by mini Mamdanis."

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